"It’s now T plus 100 hours, and we still have not heard a blip from our test balloon since launch on Friday. Joshua estimates that the battery of the recovery system can last about 5 days (120 hours), making it pretty unlikely that we are going to hear anything at all from it at this point. "

I seem to remember Prometheus losing their one too! I think someone found it and rang them, so good luck guys!

Sorry didn't see comment earlier. I'm part of the Broadcom team working on the BRCM2727 - it's a pretty amazing chip! Camera ISP (up to 8MP), HD (720p) record/playback, OpenGL and OpenVG acceleration, audio. All at a very low power consumption (I think 720p encode is < 500mA). Designed for mobile phones and the like, but I reckon there are so many products you could make with these sorts of chips that we shall start to see some quite innovative stuff coming out once people realise what is possible.

Given the media interest in rocket flights, you could afford to have 10 boards, each with an HD record capability, spread around the craft, each board needing the 2727, camera and SD card plus battery. Each board would be < $50!! You could easily switch recording from stills (8MP) to video and back, so video, then hi-res, then video etc. Sound recording etc. You could probably even interface it such that the SD card also logged flight information (plug in GPS to it etc). Each board would be smaller than a matchbox.....

Hi all,We have scheduled a new stratospheric balloon flight in order to repeat the test for the recovery system WBRS.It will be in december 19, 2009 in Zaragoza (Spain). See the progress at:http://www.wikisat.org/?page_id=9This time, Payload will be a Lunar Rover prototype from GLXP Team FREDNET.

We lost the WikiSat Balloon Recovery System in the Launch #1 but this time we try to attempt a second chance with a validated code of the WBRS written by Anders Feders. I validated the program and it works very well in my car so I hope it will work in the balloon as well.

What is the purpose of the launcher? Is this for ejecting a small satellite in orbit to meet the N-Prize requirements for a mass of 9.99 to 19.99 grams?

By the way, do you have another link for the video from the third high altitude balloon in collaboration with DAEDALUS? The link in your earlier post seems to require being a member of FredNet. Wasn't that the mission where you used two balloons, and recovered the payload with one of the balloons still inflated? That was amazing.